the court's filings and hearings also could elaborate on any plans to hand off unfinished business to federal prosecutors scattered across the justice department, including the powerful southern district of new york, where probes appear to be ratcheting up between the president's business, 2016 campaign and inauguration. the mueller finale now competing for legal peril for the president and his cohorts with that southern district of new york as politico reports and capitol hill, where investigations into trump are gaining a laser focus. house committee chairman elijah cummings is today gearing up for a legal standoff with two trump lawyers over the investigation into the president's hush money operation. the president's legal and political troubles are where we start once again with some of our favorite reporters and friends. phil rucker, white house bureau chief for "the washington post," former u.s. attorney joyce vance, betsy woodruff, daily beast political reporter and with us at the table nbc news national political reporter